Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> No, it isn't that clever. In general, the package deals quite well
>> with breaking at binary relations, like + and -, but doesn't know how
>> to deal with very wide fractions, superscripts, subscripts etc. I
>> think the same applies to TeXmacs.
>
> In that case, these programs are not good solutions. I suppose they
> could just say "oops, too wide to display" or "here is the leftmost
> 8.5 inches of your display, the rest is gone".
Well, the rest isn't really gone. In TeXmacs you get a horizontal
scroll bar, which you can use to see the rest. In Emacs you can use the
usual key binding, `C-x <', to scroll the buffer horizontally.
But I get your point: if Maxima does the typesetting then it's able to
make some more intelligent decisions that an external renderer could
probably never do.
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Cheers,
Jesper Harder